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african-american firsts bolshevism
First of all, Bolshevism represents... C. L. R. James
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We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition. Kofi Annan
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There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project. Rande Gerber
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Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts. Martin Jacques
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'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. Nnedi Okorafor
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The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia. Hiram Rhodes Revels
african-american way asian
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is Edward James Olmos
african-american actors done
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it. Eddie Murphy
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WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.
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Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
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We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.
below league level maybe players
We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.
below brick days directly filming four looking minutes realised seen spent viewpoint
We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
below brothers cents contrast number obviously saw stark
When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.
below concentration level normal sentences strange
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
below farmers forced guaranteed harvest invest lose prices production
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
below blood irish living warm
We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
below danger happening knew living orleans sea
When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.
bothering-you bother ifs
If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself. David Strickland
both discovery driven east finds fossil mary since understand
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past. Louise Leakey
both since
Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking. Lisa Cholodenko
both feed suffice
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically. Maajid Nawaz
both direct guess project serious
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. Mackenzie Astin
both country english federal issue kinds language laws learn official people practical side state
The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.
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The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen? Ben Folds
both potential
The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.
both huge potential sales
The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.
boys thinking years
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella. Charles Dickens
boys yesterday today
I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?
boys flesh want
"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.
boys night men
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.
boys littles little-time
So many boys, so little time... Alanis Morissette
boys self names
There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true. Alan Rickman
boys men names
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister? Alan Bennett
boys views want
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery. Alan Alda
boycott
I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work. Al Sharpton
carbon-cycle water upset
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. David Suzuki
carbon-emissions black lines
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions. David Roberts
carbon-footprint goal planets
My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave. Denis Leary
carbon hoping
We're hoping that the carbon monoxide was just a byproduct of the explosion.
carbon copy creeping last thinking time toward
We're not approaching it to make a carbon copy of what we did last time but we've tended to come back to the way we were thinking then. More to the point, I'm creeping up toward being old enough for it now. John Hurt
carbon circling general irrelevant life man mere pinpoint planet seems special star
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. Leonard Susskind
carbon foot less people public
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport. Richard Rogers
carbon-footprint trying green
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard. Bruce Dickinson
carbon harder bits
Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. Bill Hayden
famous gallery
My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
famous intended perhaps terribly
I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer. Holly Lisle
famous-love grief passion
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
famous-love long comfort
Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
famous-love falling-in-love new-relationship
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. Bertrand Russell
famous says whenever
Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.' Martin Freeman
famous life
When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own. Norman Wisdom
famous people
My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics. Natalie Massenet
famous monsters
When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt. Rick Baker
fastest moving products stores
The products that are moving out of the stores the fastest are those that are most expensive. Giorgio Armani
fastest perhaps ramp transition
This will perhaps be the fastest transition from ramp to store.
fastest full placed yacht
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets. Wang Jianlin
fastest guard quick super
She may be the fastest guard in the country. She's super quick and super fast.
fastest poetry
For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through. Shane Koyczan
fastest moves science
Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy. Lee Smolin
fastest price sort tag tuna
Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head. Paul Watson
fastest guy strongest supposed thinks west
West Frankfort was supposed to win. ... but, it isn't always the biggest, fastest or strongest that wins, but it's the guy who thinks he can.
fastest growing
Right now it's probably the fastest growing drug sector.
fiber population feds
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. Benjamin Graham
fiber inhabit position requiring somebody
You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being. Billy Porter
fiber facts bears
Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life. Albert Schweitzer
fiber nerves moments
The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. Daisaku Ikeda
fiber tree waste
Fiber utilization is important, we use every part of the tree and don't waste anything.
fiber
Fiber is important, as long as you keep it down.
fiber multiple optical unit
The optical fiber unit is still for sale. We're still working with multiple bidders.
fiber guy kept knocked people team united
Our team is neat. They're the fiber of a lot of people in the United States. They're the little guy who got knocked down and kept getting up again.
fiber fight
I will fight this with every fiber of my being.
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
happens things-happen
Everything happens for me, not to me. Byron Katie
happens ferry i-can
I can never predict what's going to happen. Bryan Ferry
happens
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for. Catherynne M. Valente
happens things-happen
Everything happens through relationships. Arne Glimcher
happens
Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays. Edgar Bergen
happens available
Be available for life to happen. Bill Murray
happens hug john past pat pitch talk team trying
Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.
happens hoping next night playing total
We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.
happens year
What happens when we don't have a year like this one?
legs operations better-now
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations. David Prowse
legs looks heels
I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that. Blanka Vlasic
legs infection
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. Dick Dale
legs donkey treats
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey. C. S. Lewis
legs arms ruins
Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you Bob Dylan
legs wear
To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.
legs
When the legs are healthy, I can do the things I want to do. Right now, my legs are strong. Ray Durham
legs poet said
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Charles Bukowski
legs might muscles pain properly
When you're properly stretched, you're legs will feel loose. You might feel a little pain when you stretch, but that's just your muscles loosening. Jason Miller
oscars comedy wilde
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. Elizabeth Banks
oscars sacred
We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.
oscars would-be bathtubs
Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub. Dianne Wiest
oscars golden kim
For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought. Ricky Gervais
oscars let-me grammy
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set. Dick Van Dyke
oscars turns
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one. Brett Ratner
oscars would-be deals
I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
oscars condom enjoy
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
oscar tail work
I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.
poster
I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board. Harrison Ford
posters epiphany streets
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. Jenny Holzer
posters collectors huge
I'm a huge poster collector. Illeana Douglas
poster tech
I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.
poster seeing sort
It's like seeing a poster of some sort of monster, Mark Geragos
question strike
The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.
question taken
We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.
questions
We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates. Clint Hurdle
question
We're going to take a hit, no question about it.
questions sit spend talk time
We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him. Michael Vick
questions sort
We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.
question
We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them. Craig Fugate
question types
There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?
question raise
Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.
southern desire pieces
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
southern said southerner
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. Charles Kuralt
southern election certain
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. Belle Boyd
southern comfort world
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone. Brad Paisley
southern heritage dialect
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. Brad Pitt
southern gentleman southern-gentleman
I'm a southern gentleman. Jamie Foxx
southern flying towns
Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies. Bill Hicks
southern
We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.
southern
Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.
upside
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. Susanne Bier
upside-down moments possibility
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed. Anna Deavere Smith
upside
His upside is a joke. He could be really special. Bob Hill
upside-down bottom ifs
Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down. Bill Vaughan
upside-down backwards
Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down. John Heider
upside-down painting suitable
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. Georg Baselitz
upside
There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,
upside-down dangerous historian
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. Nikita Khrushchev
upside
If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.
using-people gay evil
One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can. Alan Chambers
using-your-talents giving bird
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer
using whether
I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact. Aerin Lauder
using
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. George Wald
using
This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics. Tom Jenkinson
using work
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. Lucy Liu
using
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' Ban Ki-moon
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
using
It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done. Allison Tolman